Strong opinions, weakly held

It’s looking like CDNow might die an ugly death. Someone will almost certainly buy them out before they just go out of business, but this is a real warning sign, I think. Perhaps this will cause other people to realize that you can’t piss away money indefinitely while promising some ephemeral future returns. To get an idea of how serious this is, in February, CDNow served the most buyers on the Web, according to PC Data.